Marin union chief to serve on pension board

The Marin County Employees Retirement Association, or pension board, reported this week that the only applicant for an elected board seat representing miscellaneous employees was Phillip Thomas, president of the Marin Association of Public Employees, the Civic Center's largest union.

Thomas will join his union colleague Maya Gladstern, a member of the MAPE executive board, who already serves on the pension panel.

The board is made up of four employees and a retiree who benefit from the system, and four members of the public who are selected by county supervisors.

Although supervisors jockey to serve on many agency boards, the Board of Supervisors in recent years has abandoned the county's long tradition of having a supervisor serve on the pension panel.